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Jail employers withholding UIF Covid-19 money - Busa

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In a rare show of unity, Busa, which represents established companies, and Cosatu on Thursday told SowetanLIVE that law enforcement agents should investigate companies that have not forwarded the UIF Covid-19 relief fund to their cash-strapped employees.

Business Unity South Africa and labour federation Cosatu have called for the imprisonment of executives whose companies have failed to disburse money from the Unemployment Insurance Fund's coronavirus relief fund.

The fund, which has paid out R9bn to date, was setup to enable employers to pay employees who are temporarily out of work due to the pandemic and the country being on the lockdown. "If you break the law [by failing to disburse UIF relief fund money] the law must take its course and you must be charged. If the minister has such information he must ensure that the law enforcement agencies take care of it and people must be charged," said Coovadia.

Pamla, despite throwing caution to the wind, said a police task team should be created to probe complaints relating to the relief fund.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

 

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I suspect a lot of companies are cliaming for thr UIF relief, with the intent to withhold the money and continue retrenching staff.

But Jacob Zuma s team loots how many billions and he is still laughing at the public from Nkandla

Where to report such companies

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